[BALADO] The plight of young screen addicts

Over the past decade, the increase in psychological distress among young people in Quebec has been accompanied by a sharp increase in the use of smart phones and social media.

Are these two trends, which increase in parallel, necessarily linked?

Given the scale of the phenomenon, researchers have recently looked into this question, and their results give food for thought.

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